Template:Did you know nominations/1963 Freedom Ballot

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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:22, 27 July 2019 (UTC)

1963 Freedom Ballot

  • ... that nearly 80,000 black Mississippians casted a vote in the 1963 Freedom Ballot mock election, four times more than the number of officially-registered black voters? Source: "Nearly 80,000 blacks came out to vote, four times the number of blacks registered to vote in the state." [1]

Created by MalachiReschke (talk). Nominated by MalachiReschke (talk) at 19:49, 10 June 2019 (UTC).

  • Comment to reviewer: I've offered to help this very new editor through this process. I've got the review on my watchlist, but feel free to ping me at any point. --valereee (talk) 10:48, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
Template:Ping Hello Template:Ping, and welcome to Wikipedia - excellent first article! Basic DYK criterion have been met, and the hook sounds good, but I'm going to nitpick the article's contents a bit:
  • Article says that COFO is 4 organizations and is dominated by SNCC - can you quote the relevant passage from the JSTOR source, because I can't seem to find it? Generally, might be useful to use the rp template for that source.
  • "first integrated ticket for state leadership of Mississippi since the Reconstruction" - if I'm interpreting the source correctly, it says that it's the first "black and white" integrated ticket, not just any integrated ticket?
  • "from October 14 to November 4" - can't seem to find it in the source.
Otherwise, it would be good to go once these are resolved! Juxlos (talk) 14:35, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
Template:U, thank you! MalachiReschke and I will take the discussion to the talk page. Feel free to look in there if you like, and thank you for starting the review! --valereee (talk) 16:50, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
Template:U, the editor had said they'd get to it, but they've wandered off for now; I'll go make the fixes! --valereee (talk) 11:32, 10 July 2019 (UTC)
Template:U done, would you please check the concerns? I've also tweaked the hook a bit to clarify. --valereee (talk) 11:37, 10 July 2019 (UTC)
Will examine this later tonight or so. Juxlos (talk) 19:22, 23 July 2019 (UTC)
Symbol confirmed.svg issues fixed. I take it the author is new and does not need QPQ. Juxlos (talk) 22:35, 23 July 2019 (UTC)